Bounds Quotes

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.
Samuel Ullman

Spiritual, Feelings, Become

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
Will Rogers

Ignorance, Started, Knows

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall,' a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.
Mitt Romney

Freedom, Evil, Confidence

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
Alexander Hamilton

Men, Once, Moderation

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
Epictetus

Greatest, Please, Moderation

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
Saint Augustine

Cannot, Hear, Angel

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nature, Good, Seems

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
Doug Larson

Life, Good, Grow

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Samuel Butler

Keep, Within, Virtue

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Samuel Butler

Keep, Within, Virtue

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.
Sidney Poitier

Truth, Legal, Liars

Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.
Mia Hamm

Good, Down, After

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
Joseph Conrad

Others, Away, Ourselves

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself, you know, have fun, take chances. There's no bounds.
Jewel

Love, Fun, Yourself

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
Arthur Erickson

Time, Great, Technology

All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.
Jesse Ventura

Government, Respect, Loyalty

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
John Dryden

Great, Sure, Madness

The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.
Eliot Spitzer

Change, Good, Power

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
Arthur Ashe

Within, Race, Potential

Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?
Carol Vorderman

Love, Children, Die

To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.
Bear Grylls

Adventure, Create, Anywhere

After watching films of Jim Brown, I noticed that he never ran out of bounds. He always ran North and South and that's what I turned my style into. I was a North and South runner.
Earl Campbell

After, Style, Films

The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.
Ace Frehley

Kiss, Growing, Line

The one great thing about a continuing collaboration is that they know you. And if you're really lucky, they really believe in you and think that your talent has some unending bounds to it.
Mark Ruffalo

Great, Talent, Lucky

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
Petrarch

Good, Men, Truth

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Life, Death, Through

Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?
Sara Teasdale

Beauty, Joy, Tell

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
Yann Martel

Religion, Art, Live

I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.
Tommy Shaw

Love, Nothing, Idea

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.
Jacques Ellul

Nature, God, Human

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